After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States’ healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1 to ICD-10, catching up with the latest version of the international classification of ...
In a July 31 webinar titled, "ICD-10: Are You Prepared?", Kevin McDonald, senior vice president of ASC billing services for SourceMedical, spoke with a panel of industry professionals on how ASCs can ...
Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses six initial steps ambulatory surgery centers should take to prepare for the transition to ICD-10. 1. Form an ICD-10 ...
Daniel Essin has trouble seeing how useful ICD-10 codes would be to his practice. After trolling through all the granularity, he concludes, "From a clinical perspective, it doesn't look like ICD-10 ...
As time has gone on, dental coding has become increasingly complicated, making it easy to not catch simple mistakes. Coding experts Charles Blair, DDS, and Glenda Hood of practice management company ...
CMS has identified potential claims processing issues that span the ICD-10 implementation date, or when ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes may both apply, according to a Medicare Learning Network Matters report ...
No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...
Ambience Healthcare rolled out an ICD-10 clinical document integrity assistant for inpatient care, aiming to help hospitalists document more accurate clinical notes and reduce billing and coding ...
I just read a blog by Dr. Dayle Jones that could have an important influence in the endgame effort to save DSM 5 from itself. See it at http://my.counseling.org/2011 ...
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